Cxbx 0.8.1 Test Build is released.Cxbx is an Xbox emulator for the Microsoft Windows operating system developed by a group of programmers led by a hacker named Caustik and written in the C++ programming language. Cxbx's goal is to convert a game from an Xbox executable to a native Windows executable.

The developer said:
Okay, it's Sunday afternoon (at least here it is) and I've got the rest of the evening to do whatever I feel like today, so I'm doing a little work on Cxbx today. Now, I want you all to do me a favour... the latest build of Cxbx from my branch is attached below, and yes it does play Smashing Drive! There's also a mini game attached below (remember the old DirectDraw game Donuts from the old DirectX SDKs anyone?), so you can test it with that if you have no compatible games. What I want you all to do is test it for speed! You can test it for compatability if you want, but right now I'm more worried about speed issues.

Why am I worried about speed, you might ask? Let me explain... lately I've noticed that every Cxbx dev has been getting faster results than I am with their branches. For instance, Caustik's last release ran Turok at over 85 fps on my machine, my build only gives me a fraction of that speed. The same goes for other games and XDK samples, even the mini game attached below has speed problems when there are only a few sprites on the screen. I'm positive that Smashing Drive can run at full speed (or at least 30 fps) and that's my current goal for today. I don't know it it's just my machine(s) or my builds. Today, I just want to find out once and for all. So if you have Turok or Smashing Drive, I encourage you to try this build and let me know what speeds you get.

Last minute notes: I disabled the debug output to the console to increase speeds a bit, so don't worry about KrnlDebug output. If running Smashing Drive and you get a white screen, don't worry about it; It's just an alpha blending bug and it will go away once you get in game. I'm sure this build has lots of bugs in it so don't freak out over random crashes (Smashing Drive shouldn't crash at all).

Download: shogun3d_release.rar
Download: xbox_donuts.rar